Day 3

Day 3

Another great coffee start, followed by Dunkin’ Donuts and a bacon and egg muffin AND a coconut coffee, which was interesting. Good breakfast. J

Then we attempted to make our way to the American Museum of Natural History, I’ll not go into how many trains it took us but it was definitely more than was necessary. Never mind, when we finally made our way to the Dinosaur section, it was totally worth it. Really super cool. Dad counted 26 steps from head to tail of the Apatosaurus. The whole museum was beautiful, really nice exhibits.

But lets skip to what was the true highlight of the day. Lunch. We walked all the way across Central Park to have what I can only describe as the Best. Cheesecake. Ever.

Ever.

It was in this tiny little bakery called ‘Two Little Red Hens’ and it was fabulous, we ate nothing but cheesecake and pecan pie for lunch, and it was bliss.

Then we headed to the Empire State Building, stopping at the New York Museum on the way just because the building is so so beautiful. We didn’t go up the Empire State (views from the Rock can’t be beaten), so we just had a look around the lobby before heading into the bar that was on the ground floor ‘Heartland Brewery’. Dad ordered 8, 5oz. samples of their home brews and a Long Island Ice Tea (How could he resist?) and we sat and chilled for a good couple of hours.

For our final meal in New York, we could have nothing but some good old fashioned order-by-the-slice New York Pizza, which we got from Joe’s, just round the corner from our hotel. The pepperoni was seriously good. Hot and crispy and fennely.

We got an early night in preparation for tomorrows drive to Washington DC, stopping over in Philadelphia and Baltimore on the way for cheese steaks and crab cakes. That rhymes J